“Ethnic themed†stores versus mainstream suburban retailing. ⇒
17 March 2009, late morning
Matt Lee's on fire. I would probably be more "Fuck You Whitey" if I wrote a similar post. It is good some people are more reasoned and level headed about these sorts of things. Tiff's comment is also worth a read. What else do I need to say?
This is a post from my link log: If you click the title of this post you will be taken the web page I am discussing.
This was an interesting link, but the underlying premise irritates me. When people talk about the dangers with ethnic retailing, are white people stores included in that description? My memory of Scarborough malls back in the day was that they were pretty much filled with gardening stores, european bakeries, chain anglo-focussed bookstores and english-only chain banks. The population living around these malls eventually changed. The banks started hiring more “ethnic” people and offered services in other languages. Many other stores went out of business and were replaced with stores that catered to the people who, er, actually visited the mall.
How is this bad? And isn’t the real question “why do white people move away when non-white people move into the neighbourhood?” or “why are ethnic malls a scary problem when that ethnicity is non-white, but not when they are white?” “Why aren’t white people and white businesses successfully integrating into the community around them?” I wish Calgary would commission an f-ing report on those questions.
by mahi on March 17 2009, 5:14 pm #